Benjamin Francis Leftwich Announces October UK Tour & Tickets
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Monday, 20 June 2011 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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One of the UK’s most exciting new prospects - Benjamin Francis Leftwich has announced an October UK tour ahead of releasing his stunning debut album 'Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm' on July 4th.
At just 21 years of age, Ben’s songwriting has a complex quizzical innocence while the songs themselves inspired by a childhood listening to Rolling Stones, Nina Simone and Bob Dylan, echo the enchanting wordplay of Feist and the delicate elegance of Elliott Smith.
Work on Ben’s debut album ‘Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm’ started when he was just a teenager and taught himself to play the guitar. Like the previous EPs the album is produced by Ian Grimble (Mumford & Sons, Manic Street Preachers). It’s an understated ten track masterpiece that showcases the fragile elegance of Ben’s voice, combined with simple, inviting guitar lines, delicate melodies and poetic lyrics with graceful charm.
The album follows on from the success of 2010‘s ‘A Million Miles Out’ EP and this year’s ‘Pictures’ EP, which have placed him as one of the most exciting upcoming talents in the UK. The success of the ‘A Million Miles Out’ EP led Jo Whiley to invite Ben to play at her ‘Little Noise Session’ gig at the Union Chapel as well as making the lead track ‘Atlas Hands’ one of her tracks of 2010. Ben was also invited to perform on Dermot O’Leary’s Live Sessions and his cover of Arcade Fire’s ‘Rebellion’ from the session has now been downloaded over 30,000 times. His online success also includes over 400,000 video views to date on YouTube. ‘Pictures’, the lead track from the 2nd EP, led to backing from Radio 1 and XFM with the title track awarded Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record In The World and Greg James’s ROTW.
Ben recently completed his first UK headline tour in early 2011 with 10 sold out dates including shows Manchester, Bristol, Brighton and London and has supported Noah & The Whale on their April UK tour. This success has also led to a series of confirmed forthcoming festival appearances including Bestival, Boardmasters, Green Man and Glastonbury along with these new October dates.
The album 'Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm' will be released by Dirty Hit Ltd on July 4th, preceded by single ‘Box Of Stones’ which is released today
Benjamin Francis Leftwich UK Tour Dates are as follows:
October 2011
Oct 1st - The Leadmill, Sheffield
Oct 3rd - Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
Oct 4th - The Glee Club , Nottingham
Oct 15th - Ruby Lounge, Manchester
Oct 17th - ARU, Cambridge
Oct 18th - O2 Academy2 Oxford, Oxford
Oct 20th - Fleece and Firkin, Bristol
Oct 24th - Brighton Komedia, Brighton
Oct 26th - Union Chapel, London
Oct 27th - Institute, Birmingham
Benjamin Francis Leftwich Tickets are on sale from 9am on Thursday 23rd June priced from £8.00 for regional shows and £12.00 for London show.
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